Q: Brenda suggests instead of shutting down The Daily Bulletin you continue posting to it the things you wouldn't put in a memoir. Like query letters, letters to Larry and Hazel, etc.
A: Good idea. I can call it Journal of a Memoir, by analogy with
Steinbeck's Journal of a Novel, the book he wrote at the same time he wrote
East of Eden.
I can refer to UNDERGROUND WRITER by named section.
For future reference.
And date the entries in JORNAL OF A MEMOIR.
Q: This way you won't disappoint the members of the Buzzard Cult, who look forward to their daily Daily Bulletin fix.
A: Yes, and some day someone could recombine them, as I wrote them.
Q: You know, you could end this book right now and start writing UNDERGROUND WRITER and JOURNAL OF A MEMOIR tomorrow. Put the trips to Philly Zine Fest and Zine-A-Polooza in UNDERGROUND WRITER.
A: No, this book isn't long enough.
I want to write some more about
"A Swan Song for Daily Typewriting."
I think daily typewriting
is the future of the novel, the novel, the memoir, and the journal of the novel/memoir,
all rolled into one.
I am ambivalent about leaving it. Turning my back on
the form.
I want to get paid to write, though.
It I don't, it's go
back to work, and I am too old for the factories.
I'm going to give going
straight one last try.
If it doesn't work out I'll just write as I please.
Q: If you can't sell what you write, you might as well write as you please.
A: Yes.